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Piñero
Piñero

Miguel Pinero became a leading figure in New York's art scene during the ...

Publication date: November 23, 2009

Piñero
Piñero

Miguel Pinero became a leading figure in New York's art scene during the 1970s as a poet, actor, and playwright whose vibrant, often pointed, work spoke directly to the lower classes and to disenfranchised minorities. As a founder of the influential Nuyorican Poets Cafe, his poetry soon became recognized as a forerunner to rap and hip-hop music.